Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Religion Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2024
Jonah-Kai Baker, Religion (RELG) 2024, Un-Orthodox Icons: Adaptations of the Byzantine Iconographic Tradition in the Contemporary Christian West
Sigrid Edstrom, Religion (RELG) 2024, Eric Metaxas' Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The American Evangelical
Sigrid Edstrom, Religion (RELG) 2024, Eric Metaxas' Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The American Evangelical
Sam Gilbert, Religion (RELG) 2024, Humor, Play, and World-Traveling: Acts of Indigenous Self-Recognition in the Contemporary Water Protector Movement
Catherine Merchant, Religion (RELG) 2024, “Escaping the Prison of the Brain:” The Value of Subjectivity and Objectivity in The Varieties of Religious Experience and Neurotheology
Chris O'Mara, Religion (RELG) 2024, The Enemies Within, and Other Reasons Why I Need My Gun
Aidan Walker, Religion (RELG) 2024, Sacred Storefronts: Responses to the Questions of the American City
Submissions from 2023
Connor Jansen, Religion (RELG) 2023, The Five Treasures of the Great Snow: Misconceptions of Buddhist Sacred Landscape in Sikkim, India
Maxwell, Religion (RELG) 2023, The Self, Spiritual Warfare, and Deliverance in the Work of Frank and Ida Mae Hammond
Karina Yum, Religion (RELG) 2023, Evangelical Conversion and LGBT Coming-Out Narratives: Changing Articulations of Essence, Identity, and Transformation
Submissions from 2022
Narayani Thijm, Religion (RELG) 2022, LO AND BEHOLD! Limits and Uses of Linguistic Perspectives on Mantra use in Tantric Sādhana Deity Meditations
Georgia Wilson, Religion (RELG) 2022, Performing Agency: Juanita Bynum, Neo-Pentecostalism, and Black Female Sexuality
Submissions from 2021
Eleanor Boyer, Religion (RELG) 2021, Stories of Identity: Devadasis and Bharata Natyam
Elizabeth Zimmerman, Religion (RELG) 2021, Climate Change and the Battle to Save American Christianity: Religious Motivations of Climate Skepticism among Evangelicals
Submissions from 2020
Kate Rosenfeld, Religion (RELG) 2020, iBelieve: Religiously Infused Consumerism in Apple's "Think Different" Campaign
Timothy Winter-Nelson, Religion (RELG) 2020, (Dis)Respecting Difference: An Examination of Christian Pluralism
Submissions from 2019
Hanna Anderson, Religion (RELG) 2019, Realizing the Really Real: Schizophrenia in a Traditional Indian Healing Temple
Sara Canilang, Religion (RELG) 2019, Invented Tradition and Authentic Ayurveda: Integrative Medicine in the West
Rachel Cruz, Religion (RELG) 2019, Modern Muslims: Rethinking Conversion in the Autobiographies of Muhammad Asad and Malcolm X
Madeline Egan, Religion (RELG) 2019, A Tibetan Buddhist View on Death and Dying: The Heart-Mind’s Role in a “Good” Death
Emilee Erdel, Religion (RELG) 2019, Till Death Do Us Part: Contextualizing Citizenship and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States AIDS Epidemic
Maggie Goldberger, Religion (RELG) 2019, Suburban Holy Lands: The Battle for Hindu Presence in Suburban New Jersey
Submissions from 2018
Taylor Moore Barnhill, Religion (RELG) 2018, SallekhanA, Suicide, and Selfhood: Constituting Religious Freedom in a Secular Indian Nation-State
Peter Alfonso de Hueck, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Trump Leaves of Grass
Anna R. McGinn, Religion (RELG) 2018, William James, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Religious Freedom: The Twelve Steps as an American Religious Movement
Tyrone Moore-Perez, Religion (RELG) 2018, Anime, Manga, and "Religion" in Modern Japan
Olivia Marie Nyberg, Religion (RELG) 2018, Women in Pain: How Narratives of Pain and Sacrifice Complicate the Debate over the Catholic Provision of Obstetrical Care
Abby Greene Polk, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Divine Feminine on Earth: A Comparison of Two Contemporary AvatAras of the Goddess
Abigail Greene Polk, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Divine Feminine on Earth: A Comparison of Two Contemporary AvatAras of the Goddess
Rebecca Akado Stover, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Process of Soteriological Ontology Through the Hermeneutics of Nāgārjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakārikā
Sara White, Religion (RELG) 2018, Confronting Black Suffering, Resisting Systemic Violence: An Anabaptist Theology of Racial Justice
Arielle Liang Zuaro, Religion (RELG) 2018, Saints Alive: Devotion and Destruction Through Kinetic Sculpture
Submissions from 2017
Gillian Margaret Applegate, Religion (RELG) 2017, Buddhists Who Kill: Buddhist War Ethics in Sri Lanka
August Jackson Leinbach, Religion (RELG) 2017, Christian Folk Art in Socialist Modernity: Visual Culture of China's Protestant Revival
Submissions from 2016
Margaret M. Lloyd, Religion (RELG) 2016, Embodied Sikhism: Sikh Navigation of Prejudice and Identity in Post-9/11 America
Submissions from 2015
Ella McGrane Fox, Religion (RELG) 2015, Eve & Pandora: Comparing Gender Dynamics in Punished Worlds
Yasir Adan Hassan, Religion (RELG) 2015, Qur’an Schools: Agents of Embodiment, Rhetorical Training, and Pedagogical Preservation
Submissions from 2014
Charlies Scott Cross, Religion (RELG) 2014, Will the Revolution Be "Spiritual?" Occupy, Spirituality, and Social Change
Margaret Constance Holladay, Religion (RELG) 2014, God is Not a God of Confusion: Language Comprehension and Experience of God at a Haitian Immigrant Baptist Church
Kayla Elizabeth Berge Jackson, Religion (RELG) 2014, You Are What You Eat: Exploring the Construction of a Black Social Body through Elijah Muhammad's Prescribed Rituals of Consumption
Jillian Gelbard Mattern, Religion (RELG) 2014, Mothers in Sin and Salvation: Examining Agency in Mizuko KuyÅ and Women's Use of the Blood Bowl SÅ«tra
Katherine Elinor Maxeiner, Religion (RELG) 2014, Heirs of the Prophets: Knowledge and Authority in "Al-Jumuah" Magazine
Isaama Marian Stoll, Religion (RELG) 2014, Choosing Not to Be Chosen: Reconceptualizing Jewish Chosenness in Modernity
Submissions from 2013
Lauren Ann Alexander, Religion (RELG) 2013, Talk of Rites and Talk of Rights: Circumcision, Freedom, and the Difficulty of Human Rights Discourse
Joseph Seamus Concannon, Religion (RELG) 2013, The Postmodern Re-formation: Mark C. Taylor and the Poetics of A/theology
Brooke Dianne Granowski, Religion (RELG) 2013, Wholly Other, Other Holies: Rudolf Otto's Religious Pluralism in Conversation with Contemporary Religious Studies Criticism
Arju Ragde Nishimura, Religion (RELG) 2013, A Kaleidoscope of Liliths: The World's First Woman and Her Dance with Tradition
Kathryn Powell, Religion (RELG) 2013, A Radically Traditional Approach: Using Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ to Redefine Tradition
Daniel Benjamin Ulman, Religion (RELG) 2013, Patrilineal Descent and the Sea Change that Wasn't: An Exploration of its Intricacies, Implications, and Legacy
Chloe Simha Zelkha, Religion (RELG) 2013, The Space Between: Bridging Difference and Oneness in Jewish Theology
Submissions from 2012
Kate Elizabeth Dorwart, Religion (RELG) 2012, Bharat Mata ki Jai: M. F. Husain, Hindutva, and the Contest for Modern India
Rachel Alison Foran, Religion (RELG) 2012, Made and Making: The Formation of Somali Muslim Selves in Rural Minnesota
Margaret Constance Holladay, Religion (RELG) 2014, Issues and Questions in Language Endangerment and Revitalization
Peter James Kerns, Religion (RELG) 2012, Voluntary Poverty: Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin's Program for Social Revolution
James Rothschild, Religion (RELG) 2012, Mount Moriah Revisited: In search of a viable contemporary Jewish ethical reading of the Akedah
Graham William Schneider, Religion (RELG) 2012, Go West, Young Buddha: Chögyam Trungpa, Skillful Means, and Spiritual Authority in Modern America
Hannah Casey Trees, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN), Religion (RELG) 2012, The Paradox of Existential Theology: A Critical Analysis of Søren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich
Submissions from 2011
Peter A. Berg, Religion (RELG) 2011, Examining the Knowledge of Ibn al'Arabi
Marlene K. Edelstein, Religion (RELG) 2011, In Search of Tamar: An Investigation of Feminist Interpretations of 2 Samuel 13
Submissions from 2010
Lynn Mairead Abe, Religion (RELG) 2010, Who's The Boss?: The Soka Gakkai's Legitimation of Authority in its Sect to Church Transition
Carolyn Kupper Frischer, Religion (RELG) 2010, Task Completed: Mass Suicide as the Ultimate Display of Commitment and Preservation for the Community of Heaven's Gate
Edmundo Garza, Religion (RELG) 2010, Spirited Away: the Evangelical Protestant Conversion Phenomenon amid the Poor in Urban Brazil
Avery Morrow, Religion (RELG) 2010, Patriotism, Secularism, and the Invention of State Shinto: D.C. Holtom's Representations of Japan
Submissions from 2009
Hannah Campbell Gustafson, Religion (RELG) 2009, A comparison of ecofeminist theologies in context: Rosemary Radford Ruether of the United States and Ivone Gebara of Brazil
John Delehanty, Religion (RELG) 2009, Metro-evangelization: faiths, religion, and social capital in American metropolitan politics
Sarah Hashmall, Religion (RELG) 2009, The Bhikkhuni debate in Sri Lanka
Nicholas Merkelson, Religion (RELG) 2009, Ritual ecstasy and the shamans of prehistory: an archaeological approach to the study of religion
Amanda Otero, Religion (RELG) 2009, Guadalupe: devotion, identity, and power
Laura Shatzer, Religion (RELG) 2009, Missional, incarnational, communal: an emerging church ecclesiology
